BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE

BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE is a 6-8 campus of minimally staffed scale in NEW YORK, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, educateing 112 students in grades 4 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 79% below the state mean of about 531.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2, which oversees 119 schools and 54,599 students, BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE records that the largest single group is White at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 20% Black, 19% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than New York County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 58.3%; BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE posts 87.3%, +29.1 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (New York County) logs that median household income runs about $103,931, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE is one.

CLINTON SCHOOL (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE. On composite proficiency, BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. BALLET TECH/NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR DANCE's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 139 (now 112). Over the same period, the White share expanded from 22% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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